2016 Ansbach bombing

The 2016 Ansbach bombing was an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack that occurred on 24 July 2016 when a suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest at Eugene's Wine Bar in Ansbach, Germany just yards away from the Ansbach Open music festival, which attracted a crowd of 2,500 people. Only the attacker was killed, while twelve people were wounded. The Ansbach bombing was the third act of attempted mass murder in southern Germany to occur in the span of just one week, occurring shortly after the 2016 Wurzburg train attack and the 2016 Munich attacks.

Attack
The Ansbach Open music festival was a very popular event among German music fans, and it was held on the night of 24 July 2016. A suspicious man wearing a backpack was denied entry to the music festival, which had 2,500 people in attendance. The man decided to enter the nearby Eugene's Wine Bar, and the man detonated explosives that were hidden in his backpack. Twelve people were wounded in the ensuing explosion, and ambulances rushed to the scene. The music festival was cancelled and evacuated as a result of the attack, which was initially feared to have been caused by a gas leak. The bombing in Ansbach came six days after the 2016 Wurzburg train attack and two days after the 2016 Munich attacks, both of which were claimed by the Islamic State (although the Munich attacker Ali David Sonboly was later discovered to be a mentally-ill Shi'ite, a sect of Islam that the Islamic State was opposed to).